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In a small town where loyalty to family and to your people carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isnt being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boadys life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community where notions of us and them carry the weight of history-forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world hes taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the lo
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